Stalingrad is now called Volgograd,
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It wasn't. Stalingrad didn't exist until after Stalin took over Russia. Stalingrad was called Volograd in WW1 and wasn't involved in any direct battles by German troops. It was the site of a number of battles during the Russian Civil War. The Siege of Stalingrad took place in WW2
Volgograd is the new name of Stalingrad
The fought on the Eastern front of WW2. The farthest East they fought was the city of Stalingrad, (now called Volgograd.) on the Volga River, and by the end of the war, the Eastern front was nothing more than the Eastern side of Berlin.
After Stalingrad, Germany went on the defensive. So it was a defensive type of war.
Germany suffered setbacks in Stalingrad and El Alamein in 1942